Texas

Texas holds the largest white-tailed deer herd in the United States, estimated at over 5 million animals. Celebrated for iconic antler mass and heavy management programs, prime populations thrive in the South Texas 'Golden Triangle' and the Edwards Plateau.

Inhabits the arid mountain ranges, creosote flats, and yucca washes of the Trans-Pecos region, as well as the deep canyon breaks of the Texas Panhandle. Mature bucks carry wide, heavy-beamed antler frames.

Roams the open shortgrass prairies of the Texas Panhandle and the high desert basins surrounding Marfa and Alpine. Capable of speeds over 55 mph, pronghorn graze on wildflowers, forbs, and prickly pear cactus fruit.

Highly characteristic resident of the South Texas thornscrub and West Texas desert valleys. Adults travel in cohesive family groups, feeding on prickly pear pads, mesquite beans, and sotol tubers.

Texas is the national stronghold for the Rio Grande wild turkey, inhabiting live oak motts, pecan river bottoms, and mesquite pastures throughout the Texas Hill Country and Rolling Plains.

Prolific non-native game mammal distributed across almost every county in Texas. Adult boars can exceed 300 lbs, possessing sharp curved tusks and rooting through timber bottoms, rangeland pastures, and wetlands.

Massive Asian antelope originally imported in the 1930s that now roam wild in large herds across the coastal sand plains of South Texas (Kenedy, Willacy, and Kleberg counties). Mature 'blue bulls' weigh up to 600 lbs and provide exceptional table fare.

Secretive, adaptable native predator found statewide in brush country, rocky canyons, and dense timber. Weighing 15 to 30 lbs, bobcats hunt rabbits, rodents, and game birds primarily under cover of darkness.